â  â  â  â  abul-atahiya: his life and poems â  â mohammad ali otroshi shahreza * â  hossein kiani ** â  â abstract â abul-atahiya was born and grown up in kufa-iraq, a city chosen as the central city by shias and the abbasid dynasty publicized their government there. he lived in a period which slander was common so he kept company with adulterous people and acted dishonorably. he started compo...

The article is a complex case study of 23 poems presenting the image sea maid in lyric poetry K.D. Balmont. following conclusions has been made course works: tends to be frequent love and erotic lyrics linked with decadence motives; many texts are permeated characters Slavic folklore, besides, it important that some poetical ‘renditions’ famous epic songs legends from Russian, Polish Lithuanian...

The Dutch Rozalie Hirs and Canadian Anne Carson are two contemporary poets whose poetry centres on a discursive or conceptual questioning of ideas. Yet little scholarly attention has been paid to this epistemological aspect their work. This article therefore addresses how deals with knowledge which strategies used end. First, the relationship between is explored. Building examples from Carson’s...

The present study retested previously reported empirical evidence suggesting an iconic relation between sound and emotional meaning in poetry. To this end, we analyzed the frequency of certain phoneme classes in 48 German poems and correlated them with ratings for emotional classification. Our analyses provide evidence for a link between the emotional classification of poems (joyful vs. sad) an...

This article constitutes a close reading of the sex scene that closes Ovid, Ars amatoria 2, and an analysis its contribution to Ovidian first-person erotic elegiac poetry. Lines 703-34 are read comparatively alongside parallel passages, including Amores 3.14 end 3. study pays particular attention narrative strategies, erotodidactic instruction, Latin sexual vocabulary, wider issues relating Rom...

In the rambling sequence of thoughts in Ecl. 10.31-69 that expresses the troubled state of the lovesick Gallus, Vergil depicts his friend as proposing to abandon elegy for bucolic poetry, and to take up a pair of activities presumably related to this change. These activities--carving love-messages on trees and hunting--are to some extent typical of the unrequited literary, especially pastoral, ...

This article intends to highlight the expressions and depictions of symbols meanings eroticism that are present in modern Javanese poetry texts (geguritan) as a form literature cultural products society. study seeks reveal expressed text poem geguritan entitled "Aku lan Dheweke" by Poer Adhi Prawoto, poet who is also known critic moderen literature. The formulation problem this 1) How “Aku Dhew...